{"id":33477,"date":"2012-07-09T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mouneer_anis-choice_of_new_canterbury_archbishop_a_colonial_stitch\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:02:02","slug":"bishop_mouneer_anis-choice_of_new_canterbury_archbishop_a_colonial_stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33477","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mouneer Anis&#8211;Choice of new Canterbury Archbishop a &#39;colonial&#39; stitch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare intervention, Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt warned that many of the estimated 55 million Anglicans across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia and the Americans felt they had \u201cno say\u201d\u009d in the process of selecting a successor for Dr Rowan Williams.<\/p>\n<p>He voiced fears that the selection committee, dominated by liberal-leaning British church leaders, would be unlikely to represent the traditionalist views of most Anglicans overseas.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, their decision might only serve to further fracture the Worldwide Anglican Communion, which has been riven with disputes over issues such as homosexuality in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9385196\/Choice-of-new-Archbishop-a-colonial-stitch-up.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare intervention, Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt warned that many of the estimated 55 million Anglicans across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia and the Americans felt they had \u201cno say\u201d\u009d in the process of selecting a successor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33477\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,50,74,67,389,203,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-middle-east","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}